"Simon Marlow" <simonmar at microsoft.com> writes:
>> I'd like to make a request that the HUnit testing framework be
>> converted to a 'package' in the hierarchical libraries, to make for
>> easier installation and use. If it could be added to the fptools
>> repository, and so be distributed with new releases of ghc, Hugs,
>> and nhc98, so much the better, but a separate distribution would be
>> fine as well. The current distribution appears to be two years old,
>> so I'm guessing it is pretty stable. I know it has several
>> keen users,
>> and making it more readily accessible would be a good goal.
>> Sure, hoick it on over.
>> We'll ship it with GHC and build it by default if it has an active
> maintainer with CVS access.
If Malcolm isn't interested in maintaining it, perhaps I will. It's
something I use often, and I was thinking of packaging it for Debian
anyway. This will save me the trouble.
> When the library infrastructure project comes to fruition, I'd like to
> see us split some of these packages off into separate shippable
> entities, but for the time being bundling with compilers is fine.
Yes!
>> [
>> For folks on the libraries list, I would also like to recommend
>> that the existing 'QuickCheck' package move from its
>> current location
>> in 'Debug.QuickCheck' to 'Test.QuickCheck', which is more
>> descriptive
>> of its actual use.
>> ]
>> No objections here. Leave Debug.QuickCheck as an indirection for a
> while, marked deprecated.
FWIW I second the suggestion that it go into the Test hierarchy. But
maybe this would be a good time to give them more descriptive names?
It's a little tricky, though, since they both have good "brands". I
don't have any particularly good ideas. I don't like the names
because they're both for unit testing, and they both are quick :)
Maybe in the long-term we should try to combine them?
peace,
isaac